Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 239 298
Rank change year-on-year -89 +59 -84
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 471 591 949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.35% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.45% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 215 308 525
10th Percentile £38,984 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,263 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year +0.92% +6.47% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -84 429 £66,771 -4.61% 308
London +5 260 £85,000 +6.25% 190
Work from Home +63 251 £65,000 - 170
UK excluding London -159 152 £63,076 +0.92% 160
North of England -12 62 £75,000 -3.23% 26
North West +11 38 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -110 29 £49,625 -29.11% 44
Midlands -44 26 £58,750 -2.08% 24
Yorkshire -45 21 £63,076 +94.08% 8
West Midlands -32 20 £57,500 -8.00% 16
East of England -12 19 £60,100 -7.54% 28
South West -77 15 £62,500 +4.17% 22
East Midlands -37 6 £152,500 +190.48% 8
Scotland -8 3 £55,000 +22.22% 10
North East -38 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -27 2 £72,251 +20.71% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (2.55%) Confluence
3 10 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (9.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (6.16%) Workfront
2 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Magento
3 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.56%) AWS
2 55 (11.68%) SaaS
3 47 (9.98%) Azure
4 43 (9.13%) iPaaS
5 20 (4.25%) GitHub
6 18 (3.82%) Pulumi
7 16 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.18%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.55%) GCP
9 12 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.91%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.70%) Figma
12 7 (1.49%) Asana
13 6 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.06%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.85%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.85%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.85%) Miro
15 4 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 69 (14.65%) Broadband
2 30 (6.37%) HTTP
3 13 (2.76%) WAN
4 12 (2.55%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.91%) LAN
6 4 (0.85%) Firewall
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 4 (0.85%) NGN
6 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.64%) MPLS
7 3 (0.64%) Multicast
7 3 (0.64%) Wireless
8 2 (0.42%) RTP
8 2 (0.42%) VPN
8 2 (0.42%) WLAN
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) DNS
9 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.21%) SAN
9 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.19%) Metadata
2 18 (3.82%) NoSQL
2 18 (3.82%) RDBMS
2 18 (3.82%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.76%) Power BI
4 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.64%) Big Data
5 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.64%) Tableau
6 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (5.52%) JIRA
2 18 (3.82%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.85%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 154 (32.70%) Finance
1 154 (32.70%) Marketing
2 150 (31.85%) Social Skills
3 84 (17.83%) Banking
4 68 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (12.53%) Retail
7 50 (10.62%) Law
8 49 (10.40%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (9.34%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (5.94%) Public Sector
11 27 (5.73%) Back Office
12 25 (5.31%) Legal
13 18 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (3.61%) Financial Institution
14 17 (3.61%) Manufacturing
15 14 (2.97%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.97%) Retail Banking
16 11 (2.34%) German Language
17 10 (2.12%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 142 (30.15%) Product Manager
2 83 (17.62%) Senior
3 74 (15.71%) Lead
4 62 (13.16%) Product Owner
5 44 (9.34%) Senior Manager
6 38 (8.07%) Senior Product Manager
7 31 (6.58%) Development Engineer
7 31 (6.58%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.37%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.67%) Developer
10 19 (4.03%) Consultant
11 17 (3.61%) Product Lead
12 16 (3.40%) Senior Development Engineer
12 16 (3.40%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 16 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (2.97%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.97%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.97%) Development Consultant
14 14 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.79%) REST
2 18 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.85%) CSS
3 4 (0.85%) HTML
3 4 (0.85%) Keras
3 4 (0.85%) PyTorch
3 4 (0.85%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.64%) .NET
4 3 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.42%) Spring
5 2 (0.42%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.21%) JSON
6 1 (0.21%) Playwright
6 1 (0.21%) PySpark
6 1 (0.21%) pytest
6 1 (0.21%) React
6 1 (0.21%) RESTful
6 1 (0.21%) SOAP
6 1 (0.21%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 142 (30.15%) Product Ownership
2 54 (11.46%) Social Media
3 45 (9.55%) Marketing Technology
4 44 (9.34%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (7.01%) Cloud Native
6 31 (6.58%) Public Cloud
7 23 (4.88%) Onboarding
8 21 (4.46%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.55%) Web Conferencing
12 10 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.49%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.49%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.49%) Podcast
14 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (1.06%) Educational Technology
15 5 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.88%) Linux
2 18 (3.82%) Unix
3 6 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (63.91%) Roadmaps
2 221 (46.92%) Agile
3 139 (29.51%) Product Roadmap
4 114 (24.20%) Product Vision
5 102 (21.66%) Decision-Making
6 97 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 94 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (19.75%) Mentoring
9 92 (19.53%) AI
10 86 (18.26%) User Stories
11 83 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (15.50%) Customer Experience
13 72 (15.29%) Product Requirements
14 70 (14.86%) Product Backlog
15 69 (14.65%) Product Strategy
15 69 (14.65%) User Experience
16 64 (13.59%) Sprint Planning
17 63 (13.38%) Software Engineering
18 56 (11.89%) Analytics
19 55 (11.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.46%) Java
2 30 (6.37%) Python
3 24 (5.10%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.82%) Bash
4 18 (3.82%) Go
5 10 (2.12%) SQL
6 6 (1.27%) Bicep
7 3 (0.64%) C#
7 3 (0.64%) R
8 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (14.65%) Degree
2 23 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.03%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.49%) HNC
7 7 (1.49%) HND
8 6 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.85%) CISSP
10 3 (0.64%) CCNA
10 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.64%) MBA
11 2 (0.42%) ACCA
11 2 (0.42%) CBAP
11 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 2 (0.42%) CISM
11 2 (0.42%) CRISC
11 2 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.10%) QA
2 15 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.70%) GDPR
4 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.06%) SLA
6 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.64%) PERC
6 3 (0.64%) PMO
7 2 (0.42%) GRC
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) GMP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.58%) Terraform
2 21 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.82%) Ansible
3 18 (3.82%) Argo
3 18 (3.82%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (11.04%) Adobe
2 46 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.79%) Google
4 8 (1.70%) Cisco
4 8 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.49%) Oracle
6 5 (1.06%) Dell
6 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.85%) Databricks
7 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
7 4 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
8 3 (0.64%) Aderant
8 3 (0.64%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.64%) CQG
8 3 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.64%) Reuters
8 3 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (0.64%) Tenable
8 3 (0.64%) Trayport